Category Archives: Waterfront

Some of you out there may have noticed that for almost two weeks now, I’ve been putting out a daily e-newsletter. I’d really started to appreciate news delivery services like Circa and the New York Times’ NYT Now, which condense the top stories from around the world into easy-to-digest rundowns, delivered to your inbox […]

The Portland Planning Board Tuesday is scheduled to hold a public hearing — and potentially a vote — on a requested rezone of the storied Portland Company Complex at 58 Fore St. While workshops about this zoning change have been going on since last August, a recommendation by the Planning Board would represent the next significant […]

If you’ve read this blog in the past, you know I typically post whenever Portland gets named to a top 10 list or receives some other significant mention by national publications, and you also know that happens fairly regularly. I joke in this space about how frequently somebody somewhere — Travel + Leisure, Forbes, etc. […]

At this point, we’ve gone from wide-eyed wonder about what those futuristic floating buildings are, to investigative work tying them to computer giant Google, to Google’s admission that it was indeed behind them, to wide-eyed wonder about what Google planned to do with them, to the revelation that Google planned to use them as trendy floating […]

First of all, let me be clear: This is far from a scientific survey. I took to the quick-draw social media platform Twitter yesterday in the aftermath of the Portland City Council’s decision to allow another open-air concert next summer on the Eastern Promenade. There, I joined the venerable Jana Barnello and Katie Simpson of […]

Country star Tim McGraw has made it clear already that, despite his lyrics to the contrary, he knows where Portland, Maine, is. He’s been here, he likes it here and he’s anxious to come back and visit. He said so in an interview with Portland country radio station WPOR 101.9 FM earlier this month. Nevertheless, some […]

You may remember almost a month ago I wrote in this space about Casco Bay High School Principal Derek Pierce and his opportunity to win a $100,000 grant from the Nellie Mae Foundation for his school. Click here to read that post, if not. Pierce was Maine’s nominee for the third annual Larry O’Toole Award, […]

On the latest edition of the Ink & Pine podcast, we talked with Peter Nielsen and Alisan Funk, president and academic program director, respectively, for the Circus Conservatory of America. The conservatory will be America’s first circus college, and is an anchor part of the $100-plus-million redevelopment of Portland’s high visibility Thompson’s Point, potentially one […]

When the Nova Star launched in May, it picked up where previous ferry services left off, offering daily trips from Portland to Nova Scotia and back again. There were — and still are — a lot of amenities on-board, like a casino and multiple restaurants, but it was a fledgling up-and-back ride. Now the folks […]

On Tuesday, Portland Tugboat LLC posted a picture on its Facebook page of the once-celebrated so-called “Google barge” being dragged away from Portland Harbor by the tugger Rowan — as the post said, “for good.” Thus ends a 10-month stay for the cube-like floating structure that was a whirlwind in terms of interest, but not […]